DNA, often called the blueprint of life, is built from four chemical building blocks known as deoxy-nucleoside triphosphates ...

Could yeast and humans be any more different? Going by looks alone, probably not. But peering into our genomes reveals ...

Long Interspersed Nuclear Element-1 (LINE-1 or L1) is the only active, self-copying genetic element in the human ...

New research from the University of Wisconsin–Madison reveals that dysfunction in a protein essential to maintaining ...

Mayo Clinic researchers have identified a protein that acts like a traffic controller for DNA, preventing damage during cell division—a discovery that could lead to new cancer therapies, according to ...

The rate of HIV infection continues to climb globally. Around 40 million people live with HIV-1, the most common HIV strain.

Scientists found a virus-like living entity in human bodies named "obelisks" - small loops of RNA, each a thousand genetic ...

Rottweilers with lifelong hormone balance lived longer and faced less danger from frailty, showing how hormones shape late-life resilience.

THE development of life on Earth means that every living organism is related to every other.Whatever the pair of organisms, ...

Buried deep beneath the Earth’s surface, scientists have uncovered a mysterious group of microbes unlike anything known ...

INTERVIEW: For his first English-language film, the filmmaker came up with story about collapse of American government that ...

Researchers at Nashville's Meharry Medical College recently launched a groundbreaking initiative with global implications for health equity and scientific advancement. The GREAT Health Study aims to ...